- The Village Flower Farm and Community Center, founded through a chance meeting between local teens and Tara Jegla, teaches youth the value of kindness through gardening and community service.
- As part of FOX 47 and ePIFanyNow’s Week of Kindness, we are highlighting how the nonprofit brings Lansing neighbors together to grow both flowers and connections.
- The initiative shows how small acts of kindness, like opening a door or planting a flower, can lead to meaningful, lasting change in the neighborhood
- If you would like to donate to this nonprofit, you can click the link at the end of the broadcast script
(The following is a transcript of the broadcast script)
It’s a Week of Kindness here at FOX 47, and with help from ePIFanyNow, we’re shining a spotlight on local nonprofits whose work is transforming lives. I’m your neighborhood reporter, Asya Lawrence, and today we’re at The Village Flower Farm and Community Center, where volunteers and Lansing youth are spreading kindness—one flower at a time.
“It’s doing things out of your way to be kind to others and make them feel better… that’s what kindness is to me.” Joshua McNeil said.
Three years ago, 15-year-old Joshua McNeil and his friends crossed paths with Tara Jegla—and saw what kindness truly means…